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Likes: One great thing about Sharp is their "One File Firmware". I can load as many models on one thumb drive as it can handle. I can plug it in and pick my file.
Why can't other manufacturers do this?!
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One great thing about Sharp is their "One File Firmware". I can load as many models on one thumb drive as it can handle. I can plug it in and pick my file.
Why can't other manufacturers do this?!
Lexmark is like that. (.fls file)
I don't really have a clue about the writing of firmware, but I'd image that breaking it into multiple pieces would make it easier to edit the individual pieces, with less risk of breaking something else in that same file. =^..^=
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I know about single fls but I never experimented if you could load more than one on the same thumb drive. Good to know.Originally Posted by blackcat4866
You can have many FW folders for many Konica Minolta machines on one thumb drive and machine will pickup its own.
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Same with the newer Kyocera.
When you think you have made a procedure idiot proof your company employs a better idiot.
I only have experience with Toshiba, Sharp and Canon. With the Toshibas and Canons, You can have as many folders as you want on your thumb drive, and as long as the folder is named properly, the machine will load the correct one. The thing that puzzles me, is the Sharp firmware file is very small compared to other manufacturers. Why such a difference in size?
yes on lexmark devices. i have different folders on my usb drive. inside a model specific folder i have that fls file saved. when i plug my drive in i just navigate to that specific folder and select that fls file to update firmware. works well for me. just make sure the drive is formatted fat32.
I kid you not, I asked XEROX this exact question. I asked, "Why is this firmware almost a gig?" "Well you see, our machines can do everything! It can Scan, fax, copy, scan to folders, to e-mail's, that's why it's a large file" responded the Xerox Engineer Support.
Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. I swear, I didn't know what to say. To this day, I am shocked at that response, and it has become the inside joke of the company I work for.
The balls, the cojones on this guy, and he seemed genuine too.
That is simple to explain. The engineers at Brand X do not know how to break their firmware into individual modules for each of those functions.
Generally speaking....
The larger firmware like Toshibas contain like the entire Operating System(OS).
Toshiba uses a modified Debian Linux based system and they are replacing the entire boot image when you do firmware.
The smaller firmware like Lexmark are only replacing the MFP's program portion of the system - the OS is onboard and/or locked.
There is the OS and then there is a program running on the OS that equals 'THE MFP'
One process replaces the entire OS and THE MFP program and the other only replaces THE MFP program and the core OS is left mostly untouched.
Having a locked or un-updated OS makes the firmware easy but also...your OS is never updated so if it's exploited - your boned.
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